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Native americans
Native American civil rights in the period 1865-1992
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Navajo tribe thrived under reservation policy | 8,000 - 22,000 |
| Reservation lands change from 1865-1890 | 150 million acres - 78 million acres |
| Command over treaty changes given to congress | 1871 |
| Great Sioux reservations greatly reduced following fighting | 1889 |
| Change in number of natives in the plains 1865-1900 | 240,000 - 100,000 |
| Dawes Act | 1887 |
| Policies that came from the Dawes Act | policies of assimilation and allotment |
| Dawes Act failed to account for Native.. | perspective, culture and desires |
| Curtis Act | 1898 (aimed to end self-determination by 1906) |
| American Indian Movement | 1968 |
| Siege of Alcatraz | 1969 |
| Mount Rushmore occupation | 1971 |
| Reservation policy | 1865 - 1887 |
| Number of reservation natives by 1890 | 133,417 |
| Fort Laramie Treaty | 1868 |
| Wounded Knee Massacre | 1890 |
| Mandatory boarding schools | In order to assimilate future generations |
| Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan | 1972 |
| Occupation of Wounded Knee | 1973 |
| Red Power movement | 1960s and 1970s |
| Native American Rights Fund | 1970 |
| Change in Native American population 1970-1992 | 800,000 - 1,700,000 |
| Oneida v Oneida and Madison Counties | 1974 |
| Fisher v Montana | 1976 |
| United States v The Sioux Nation | 1980 |
| Amount awarded to Sioux Nation in 1980 | $17,500,000 with 5% interest every year since to make $105,000,000 |
| Charrier v Bell | 1986 |
| Native American Graves Protection Act | 1990 |
| Nixon Presidency | 1969 - 1974 |
| Employment preferences given to Natives in the BIA | 1972 |
| Indian education act | 1972 |
| Indian self-determination act | 1975 |
| Indian Education Assistance act | 1975 |
| American Indian Policy Review Commission | 1975 |
| Native American Religious Freedom act | 1978 |
| Indian Child Welfare Act | 1978 |
| Reagan Presidency and Philosophy | 1981 - 1989, he believe in self-determination through "Native Capitalism" |
| Lone Wolf v Hitchcock | 1903 |
| Society of American Indians | 1911 |
| WW1 | 1917 |
| Indian Citizenship act | 1924 |
| Harrison v Laveen | 1948 |
| Meriam report | 1928 |
| The Leavitt bill | 1926 |
| The New Deal | 1933 |
| Indian Re-organization Act | 1934 |
| WW2 | 1941 |
| Number of Natives who left homestead during WW2 | 100,000 |
| Number of Natives who served in WW2 | 25,000 |
| Number of Natives who moved to urban areas during WW2 | 75,000 |
| The National Congress of American Indians | 1944 |
| The Indians Claims Commission | 1946 |
| Number of Indians living in urban areas between 1930 - 1960 | Increase 4 fold |
| Policy of Termination | 1953 - 1968 |
| Indian Vocational Training act | 1956 |
| Negative impact of policy of termination | Natives had worst literacy rate, disease and unemployment and lived in the poorest accommodation |
| Number of Natives urbanising by 1960 | 60,000 |
| Percentage of Urban-dwelling Natives classed as poor by 1960 | 25% |
| Unemployment rate amongst Natives in 1960 | 18% |
| Percentage of Urbanised Natives which ultimately returned to reservations | 40%-70% |
| National Indian Youth Council | 1961 |
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